La Corne
La Corne is a municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec in Abitibi Regional County Municipality.
The place is named in honour of Louis de La Corne, a French naval officer who was wounded in the Battle of Sainte-Foy in 1760. Until 1978, the place name was incorrectly spelled as Lacorne.
From 1955 to 1965, La Corne was home to Canada's only lithium mine. The underground mine had a deep shaft and lateral workings on three levels, and provided lithium to the glass and ceramics industries. With the advent of lithium batteries for electric cars and a myriad of consumer electronic products, the mine is currently being studied for reopening in late 2012 as an open-pit mine.
History
The municipality of La Corne was founded in 1975 under the name Lacorne. The name was changed to the current La Corne in 1978.Demographics
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents : 322Mother tongue :
- English as first language: 0.6%
- French as first language: 98.7%
- English and French as first language: 0%
- Other as first language: 0.6%
Government
- Mayor: Éric Comeau
- Councillors: Gaétan Goyette, André Gélinas, Samuel Vaillancourt, Yanick Hamel, André Beauchemin, Annie Grandmont
- Lionel Nadon
- Adélard St-Pierre
- Eloi Hamel
- Jean Claude Trottier
- Yvon Vaillancourts
- Gérald St-Pierre
- Yvon Vigneault
- Michel Lévesque
- Éric Comeau